Renovating Old Carpet
Do you remember a while ago I sent in an idea from an English paper about
sizing and painting the wrong side of a carpet? Well, I did mine, and it is a huge success. I live on a farm, and the kitchen runners get plenty of traffic. I sized the carpet before going to bed one night, and it was dry by the morning. Then I put plenty of paper on the veranda, and spread the runner on it. We had plenty of cream paint, so I added some black pigment, and it turned it a nice shade of grey. I gave it three coats and left it to dry, and it is wearing well. I even scrub it, and it still looks as good as the day it was done. I thought I would let you know in case some folk were a bit dubious about doing it.-K.F., Harewood (Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 196, 26 March 1943, Page 11
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155Renovating Old Carpet New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 196, 26 March 1943, Page 11
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